1882 in Canadian football

The Canadian Rugby Football Union was founded on October 21, 1882. The organisation disbanded and re-emerged as the Canadian Rugby Union in 1892. The season of 1882 opened on May 13 with the Britannia Football Club and Montreal Football Club playing to a 0-0 tie. In the fall on October 4, the Britannia Football Club and RMC[clarification needed] scored a goal but it was another 1-1 tie and the Brits were undefeated. On October 21 they defeated their cross-town rivals, Montreal 1 goal to nil and then defeated McGill 2 goals to nil to again capture the city championship.[1]

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Rugby Canada
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Rugby Canada is the national governing body for the sport of rugby union in Canada. Rugby Canada administers the Canada national rugby team and sanctions the Rugby Canada National Junior Championship. The Canadian Rugby Football Union was established in 1884 with the purpose of organizing play-off games between various union champions. Representatives from the Montreal Football club, the Toronto Rugby Football Club and from the Hamilton Rugby Football Club had meetings in Toronto and Montreal. This organization was the forerunner of the Canadian Football League, as football in Canada evolved into Canadian football with rugby union being known as English rugby. To make matters more confusing the word continued to be applied to Canadian football. It was not until 1967 that the original CRU finally cleared up this confusion by renaming itself the Canadian Amateur Football Association, the Rugby Union of Canada, re-formed in 1965 as the Canadian Rugby Union with British Columbia’s Bob Spray as its first president. It was incorporated in 1974 and is affiliated to World Rugby, since then, Rugby Canada, as it is known, has been a permanent fixture on the global rugby scene, including trips to each of the nine Rugby World Cups. As a regular in the World Rugby Sevens Series, Canada continues to climb the world rankings

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Football Canada
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Football Canada is the governing body for amateur Canadian football. Football Canada is headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario, the CRU was founded to govern a sport which at the time had rules similar to the rugby football being played in the United Kingdom. In 1909, Albert Grey, 4th Earl Grey, then Governor General of Canada and this trophy became known as the Grey Cup. Even by this time however, the rules being played in Canada were vastly different from the used in countries that were part of the International Rugby Board. In the years followed, the CRU made numerous rule changes that resulted in a game reasonably similar to the American one. Despite the divergence, the continued to be referred to as rugby for many years. By the 1940s, however, another development was to further changes to the CRUs mandate. By the 1950s, the two unions had become openly professional, and in 1956 formed the Canadian Football Council as an umbrella organization. In 1958, the CFC seceded from the CRU and became the Canadian Football League, the CAFA changed its name again, to Football Canada in 1986. In French, its name had long been Football Canada, as of 2005 Football Canada is primarily responsible for running amateur football in Canada, including the national amateur football championships. It is actively trying to foster closer working relationships with both the CFL and the National Football League, the event built on the previous International Bowl format of Team USA vs. Team World. Canadas under-18 team for the International Bowl is selected from the top players, Football Canada offers coaches training through the National Coaching Certification Program for flag, touch and tackle football. In 2014, the organization partnered with the Canadian Football League to further refine the program and these are the CRU champions before the dedication of the Grey Cup. 1900 – Ottawa defeated Brockville 1901 – Ottawa University defeated Argonauts 1902 – Ottawa defeated Ottawa University 1903 – No game, see the article List of Grey Cup champions for the complete Grey Cup listing. Source, Ottawa Citizen, November 28,1910, page 8

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McGill Redmen football
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The McGill Redmen football team represents McGill University athletics teams in U Sports and is based in Montreal, Quebec. The program is one of the oldest in all of Canada, the team won its first championship in 1902 and since then have also won in 1912,1913,1919,1928,1938 and 1960 prior to the inauguration of the Vanier Cup in 1965. McGill appeared in the Vanier Cup final in 1969,1973 and 1987, McGill plays out of Percival Molson Memorial Stadium, where the Canadian Football Leagues Montreal Alouettes also play. Since the retirement of head coach Charlie Baillie in 2000. In October 2005, the McGill administration cancelled the last three games of football season after confirmed reports of hazing involving sexual abuse. After their 2005 suspension, the team struggled with three losing seasons, including two seasons in 2007 and 2008. The program showed signs of hope as the Redmen won three games in 2009, but soon sank back down to futility with consecutive winless campaigns in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, the Redmen qualified for the playoffs for the first time since 2006, in 1874, McGill and Harvard met in the first North American style football game. From 1898, McGill played in the Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union, and won their first championship, in 1912, Frank Shaughnessy was recruited as the first professional head coach. His teams won the Yates Cup during his first two seasons, in 1919, the team went undefeated and did not concede a touchdown, and in 1928. The 1919 team was inducted into McGills Hall of Fame in 2010, McGill next won a championship in 1938. The team tied for the regular season 8–1 with Western after losing their final game to Western. The teams played off for the championship, won 9–0 by McGill, with all the scoring from kicker Herb Westman, in 1971, McGill joined a newly formed Quebec-only conference known as the Quebec University Athletic Association. In 1974, the three remaining Quebec teams merged with three Ontario teams in the Ontario-Quebec Intercollegiate Football Conference, McGill won the ODIFCs Dunsmore Cup again for the first time 1987, along with the Montreal Shrine Bowl, Shaughnessy Cup, Robert Stanfield trophy and the Vanier Cup. The 1987 team featured Michael Soles at running back, who went on to a playing career in the Canadian Football League. That team was coached by Charlie Baillie who took over in 1972, Baillie surpassed the legendary Frank Shaughnessys school record for wins and went on to become McGills winningest coach. McGill was later awarded the Cup by forfeit after it was discovered that Laval had used ineligible players Source, McGill

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1909 in Canadian football
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Lord Earl Grey, the Governor General of Canada, donated a trophy to be awarded for the Dominion Football Championship of Canada. Only teams registered with the Canadian Rugby Union were eligible to compete for the trophy, hugh Gall kicked a record eight singles in the game for the U of T. The Tigers won 11–6 before 15,000 fans, toronto Parkdale advances to the Grey Cup. Toronto Varsity Blues advance to the Grey Cup